Ok, so I traded in my ford and Im now driving a 2006 a/t Cherry Red Shinka! The only realy odd part on this car is that it has a tape player, but eh who cares! Great car, only 100 miles on it. Im taking it for a drive this weekend out of town... looking forward to it.


Picks to come soon.

 

That is odd, did it come with the mini-disc player as well?

 

mini-disc player? never heard anything bout it.
No, just the 6disk mp3 + satilite raido 1 year and .... gerbils...6 of them.

 

That part is interchangable

Taps into the piano black section under the preset buttons.

 

Still have a Ford horn though

Sound familiar?

 

No, havent had the chance to honk yet.... were are the old people crossing the street when you need um.

 

Congrats man, welcome to the club.

I love the horn on the 8.... it commands attention, unlike my g/fs Saturn.

 

Just hit your lock button twice on your remote. You'll get a quick honk.

 

... what about adding fog horns?? The trunk seems spacious enough to hold a good size tank of air....


Lol....

 

When a coworker pushes her lock buttons on her key her car gives out this pathetic little "meh."

 

Well thats why you get fog horns.... its just a really loud meh that can be heard from inside the super wallmart you parked next to.

 

When I first bought the car I was walking infront of it as I hit the lock button twice.. OMFG it scared the crap outa me! I wasnt expecting it.. I was expecting a lil measly "meep" if that. Though blasting the horn for over 30seconds does command respect and fear outa people when/if they cut you off, or if they are in the fast lane going hmm -20mph below the speed limit. Never knew they used a "ford" horn but yeah sucker is loud. Just need to install a P.A. system and have Ludacris's sound byte of "Move Bitch Get Out The Way!" haha...


And to the OP welcome to the club and ignore our lil um hysteria at the moment on another thread.

 

I'd prefer the "meh" to the main horn. My dad's old Audi had the "meh", which sounded like it came from another part of the car than the engine compartment, maybe right-rear near the trunk...

Mom's Subie wagon uses the main horn, too, which is massively annoying as it apparently can't be disabled (unlike ours where you don't get any horn at all unless you hit the lock button TWICE) and you get TWO honks when you unlock ("meep-meep").

Gotta love the sound effects in here.

 

How do I disable the alarm?


Oh dang it.

 

Awesome... kinda reminds me of my first car back in 88. It was a 73 Impala and had an 8-track player.

 

Welcome to the club, I also and the recent owner of a Copper Red Shinka, enjoy and post pics.

 

Congrats!! Just posted this in another thread - can you say hijack?

 

If it's a new Subie there is a way to disable it, at least I did in my WRX when I had it. I just don't remember how. Something about holding certain buttons for certain periods of time...

 

My coworker has a Jetta that makes the "meh" sound. There is a lady that gets off work around the time I am getting there. She has a Honda SUV that is fairly new, probably within the last year or two. I'm not sure what model it is but when she pushes the buttons to unlock it her horn sounds twice. It scared the crap out of me one day. I was walking in front of it (she backs into her spot) as she was unlocking the door. She laughed and told me her car was just talking to me. LOL

I don't know about the other models of 8s but my 06 GT (transmitter thingy) makes a single high-pitched electronic beep sound when you push the remote button once for lock, twice for unlock, same thing when you use the buttons on the door handles. It does make that really loud horn when you push lock twice on the remote. I have to remember to only push it once at night when I get home from work so I don't disturb the neighbor if he has already gone to bed.

 

Why is it the only place I see the special edition name "Shinka" on the side of my car, but nowhere inside? Most special edition cars make sure people know its one, inside and out.


Also, what does that name mean?




Not "failing engine" i hope.

 

umm... the leather should tell u its shinka.

shinka means evolution i think.

 

The Shinka for '06 isn't really a special edition like the '05 was, it's more just an option package.

 

Shinka is the japanese word for "evolution" or "transformation" (or more accurately the concept of "to evolve" or "to transform" remember, the japanese language is concept based, as oposed to most western languages which are word based)

yes, as Ike said: for '05 Shinka was a special edition ( had a numbered plaque on the engine compartment and a unique color, headlights/taillights.)

for '06 it is a trim level (still has the tan leather interiors, black interior trim, urethane filled crossmember, exterior badging, and Navi is NOT an option on it) but they can make as many as they can sell, as oposed to '05 shinkas that once they were gone- They were gone ( I think thet made a little over a thousand worldwide)

 

merging two threads together- i didnt see the reason to have bit about the shinka or not as a seperate thread

 

Oh so realy, in this case, Shinka means "evolution in marketing stragities". Oh well, I guess I can put a decal inside or something!

Thanks. I have learned a bit of japanese basics, like all the hiragana katakana, and grammer, but vocab is not very good yet.